CVE-2026-6739
MediumCVSS 6.7Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk15th percentile - higher than 15% of all known CVEs
Summary
Mattermost versions 11.6.x <= 11.6.1, 11.5.x <= 11.5.4, and 10.11.x <= 10.11.16 fail to require system-level permission when patching protected default system roles. This allows authenticated users with delegated user-management permissions to escalate privileges by altering built-in role permissions via the role patch API.
Risk Assessment
The organization may be exposed to unauthorized privilege escalation, which could lead to serious security breaches and loss of control over the system.
Recommendation
It is recommended to update Mattermost to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability and review user permissions to limit the potential for privilege escalation.
Other vulnerabilities in Mattermost
See all- CVE-2026-96260Medium
Mattermost versions 11.9.x <= 11.9.1, 11.8.x <= 11.8.5, 11.7.x <= 11.7.10, 11.10.x <= 11.10.1 fail to enforce a request body size limit during CSRF validation of plugin requests which allows an authenticated user to exhaust server memory and cause a denial of service via a large request body sent to a plugin endpoint.
- CVE-2026-96259Medium
Mattermost versions 11.9.x <= 11.9.1, 11.8.x <= 11.8.5, 11.7.x <= 11.7.10, 11.10.x <= 11.10.1 fail to apply the internal-connection filter to OAuth endpoint requests, which allows a System Administrator to make the server issue requests to internal network addresses and read the responses via the configured OAuth token and userinfo endpoints.
- CVE-2026-95666Medium
Mattermost versions 11.9.x <= 11.9.1, 11.8.x <= 11.8.5, 11.7.x <= 11.7.10, and 11.10.x <= 11.10.1 fail to limit the length of the post ID array accepted by the bulk reactions endpoint, allowing an authenticated user to cause excessive database load via a crafted request to {{POST /api/v4/posts/ids/reactions}}. Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00771.
- CVE-2026-91181Medium
Mattermost versions 11.9.x <= 11.9.0, 11.8.x <= 11.8.4, 11.7.x <= 11.7.7, 10.11.x <= 10.11.22 fail to sanitize Team objects returned by the data retention teams endpoint. An authenticated user with only the read-only Data Retention Policy permission can obtain a private team's secret invite_id and email and join the team without authorization via GET /api/v4/data_retention/policies/{policy_id}/teams.
- CVE-2026-12985Medium
Mattermost versions 11.9.x <= 11.9.0, 11.8.x <= 11.8.4, 11.7.x <= 11.7.7 failed to validate Dynamic Client Registration redirect URIs by URL component (matching glob patterns against the raw URI string instead) which allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to register an OAuth client with an attacker-controlled callback host that bypasses the configured redirect URI allowlist via a crafted redirect URI that places an allowlisted host/path suffix inside the query string. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00700
- CVE-2026-86349Medium
Mattermost versions 11.9.x <= 11.9.0, 11.8.x <= 11.8.4, 11.7.x <= 11.7.8, and 10.11.x <= 10.11.22 fail to limit nesting depth in the server-side Markdown parser, allowing an authenticated attacker to cause denial of service (CPU exhaustion) via a crafted post with deeply nested blockquotes or list items.
- CVE-2026-86348Medium
Mattermost versions <=11.9, 11.0.9, 11.4.8, 11.7.7, and 10.22.11.0 fail to recover from handler panics, allowing an authenticated user to crash the plugin via a post-action request with an unexpected field type.
- CVE-2026-82920Medium
Mattermost versions 11.9.x <= 11.9.0, 11.8.x <= 11.8.4, and 11.7.x <= 11.7.7 fail to enforce authorization boundaries on the access control policy update endpoint, allowing a channel or team administrator to detach a system-assigned ABAC parent policy via a crafted PUT /api/v4/access_control_policies request with an empty imports list.
- CVE-2026-8821High
Mattermost versions 11.9.x <= 11.9.0, 11.8.x <= 11.8.4, 11.7.x <= 11.7.7, 10.11.x <= 10.11.22 fail to validate channel member-management permission during playbook run creation, allowing an authenticated channel member to add an arbitrary user to a restricted channel via the run owner field. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00677
- CVE-2026-5132Medium
Mattermost versions 11.9.x <= 11.9.0, 11.8.x <= 11.8.4, 11.7.x <= 11.7.7, 10.11.x <= 10.11.22 fail to limit the size of unpacked SDP messages compressed with zlib. An attacker can send many SDP messages that unpack to a large size, causing denial of service or server crash.
Original NVD description (English source)
Mattermost versions 11.6.x <= 11.6.1, 11.5.x <= 11.5.4, 10.11.x <= 10.11.15, 10.11.x <= 10.11.16 fail to require system-level permission when patching protected default system roles, which allows authenticated users with delegated user-management permissions to escalate privileges by altering built-in role permissions via the role patch API.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00656
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS

